tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post3541704096644522007..comments2019-09-07T18:57:57.231-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: Bell was only partially misguided about relativityRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-40836263668583345032015-05-20T18:34:49.332-07:002015-05-20T18:34:49.332-07:00The world is giving up on Newton and Einstein beca...The world is giving up on Newton and Einstein because of low productivity in physics. Look at this new book:<br /><br />Relational Mechanics <br />2014 C. Roy Keys Inc.<br />Andre Koch Torres Assis<br /><br /><br />This book presents Relational Mechanics. This is a new mechanics which opposes not only Newton’s classical<br />mechanics, but also Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity. It answers several questions which<br />have not been clarified by the theories of Newton and Einstein. In this new mechanics several concepts<br />which formed the basis of newtonian theory do not appear, such as absolute space, absolute time and<br />absolute motion. Other classical concepts do not appear as well, such as inertial mass, inertial force, inertia<br />and inertial systems of reference. Only when relational mechanics is compared with newtonian mechanics<br />can we obtain a clear understanding of these old concepts.<br />Relational mechanics is a quantitative implementation of the ideas of Leibniz, Berkeley and Mach utilizing<br />Weber’s force for gravitation. It is based only on relational concepts such as the distance between material<br />bodies, the relative radial velocity between them and the relative radial acceleration between them. Several<br />scientists took part in its development, including Wilhelm Weber himself and Erwin Schrödinger. The goal<br />of this book is to present the properties and characteristics of this new physics, together with the main<br />aspects related to its historical development after Newton. In this way relational mechanics can be seen in a<br />broad perspective. After this presentation it becomes easy to make a comparison with the old worldviews,<br />namely, newtonian and einsteinian mechanics.<br />A great emphasis is given to Newton’s bucket experiment. When a bucket partially filled with water<br />remains stationary in the ground, the water surface is observed to remain horizontal. When the bucket and<br />the water rotate together relative to the ground around the bucket’s axis with a constant angular velocity,<br />the surface of the water is observed to become concave, higher at the sides of the bucket than along the<br />its axis. This is one of the simplest experiments ever performed in physics. Despite this fact no other<br />experiment had so deep and influential consequences upon the foundations of mechanics. We place it at the<br />same level Galileo’s experimental discovery that all bodies fall freely towards the ground with a constant<br />acceleration, no matter their weights or chemical compositions. The explanation of these two facts without<br />utilizing the concepts of absolute space or inertia, but taking into account the gravitational influence exerted<br />by the distant galaxies in these two experiments, is one of the major achievements of relational mechanics.<br />In order to show all the power of relational mechanics and to analyze it in perspective, we first present<br />newtonian mechanics and Einstein’s theories of relativity. We address the criticisms of Newton’s theory<br />made by Leibniz, Berkeley and Mach. We present several problems connected to Einstein’s theories of<br />relativity.<br /><br />In this book we show the answer to all these questions from the point of view of relational mechanics. We<br />show that these answers are much simpler and more philosophically sound and appealing than in Einstein’s<br />theories of relativity.<br />Nowadays the majority of physicists accept Einstein’s theories as correct. We show this is untenable and<br />present an alternative theory which is much clearer and more reasonable than the previous ones. We know<br />that these are strong statements, but we are sure that anyone with a basic understanding of physics will<br />accept this fact after reading this book with impartiality and without prejudice. With an understanding of<br />relational mechanics, we enter a new world, viewing the same phenomena with different eyes and from a new<br />perspective. It is a change of paradigm, considering this word with the meaning given to it by Kuhn in his<br />important work.5 This new formulation will help put physics on new rational foundations, moving it away<br />from the mystifications of this century.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com